US ice cream makers say they’ll stop using artificial dyes by 2028
Ice cream makers representing about 90% of the U.S. supply of the frozen treat have pledged to remove artificial dyes from their products in less than three years, federal health ...
Tag: Health
Dermatologists Finally Agree on What Actually Works for Your Skin
Standing in a skincare aisle surrounded by 300 serums that all promise perfect skin is enough to make anyone give up. After decades of mixed advice and marketing overload, a ...
Could Psilocybin Be the Secret To Living Longer? Scientists Think So.
The same compound that makes you stare at your hands for three hours might also slow down aging. In a new study published in npj Aging, researchers found that psilocin—the ...
US aid cuts halt HIV vaccine research in South Africa, with global impact
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward ...
Beat the heat with these cooling gadgets and wearables
You can only sit in front of the fridge with the door open for so long. As heat waves blast the world like a blow dryer on high, folks are ...
Your Vape Pen Might Be Full of Lead
Yeah, yeah, we get it—cigarettes are bad. But the more we find out about the absurd chemical concoctions that people are vaping, the more we might start thinking they’re no ...
Burkina Faso’s only eye doctor for children sees the trauma of both play and conflict
BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso (AP) — Isaka Diallo was playing with friends when a stone struck his left eye. For two weeks, his parents searched hospitals in western Burkina Faso for ...
Focus on first responders’ mental health grows as death toll rises in flood-ravaged Texas
INGRAM, Texas (AP) — Riding on horseback through brush and over numerous dead turkeys, Margo Mellon spent Tuesday scanning the flood-ravaged ground of Texas’ Hill Country for dead bodies. As ...
Gaza doctors say Israel’s killing of a prominent colleague leaves a hard-to-fill void
JERUSALEM (AP) — When the onetime director of a Gaza Strip hospital was killed by an Israeli airstrike last week, he joined a growing list of prominent Palestinian doctors who ...
Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
WASHINGTON (AP) — Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week’s European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found. Those 1,500 people “have only died ...
